1969
In the meantime, Carl had gotten the permission to leave Rumania for 3 months and was preparing himself for the trip. He wanted to see Vienna again, went there by train, from there to Frankfurt in Germany, where he wanted to see a friend, but he had died shortly before. He wanted to see our cousin Isabella in London, so he went there too and it was a nice reunion there with her and her husband Louis Eisinger.
It was already September, when he arrived in New York. We had not seen each other for over 30 years and there was understandably much excitement, when we saw each other again. There were parties without end, at Walter’s home, where Carl also stayed for a few days, at Francis’ and Vicki’s home, quite a few-times, always combined with piano-playing and singing by Carl, recorded on a tape-recorder. Also at Lisa’s and Paul’s apartment. We went out with Carl almost daily to show him the city, went also further out, for instance to Hyde Park to the former residence of President Roosevelt and his grave, once also with me alone to Washington D.C. for two days. We went also to shows, for instance to “Fiddler on the Roof”. We could not go to the opera, since there was just at that time a strike there. Nancy was still with us and Carl showed her how to play cards. Soon Johanna came from Tacoma to be with Carl, stayed for about two weeks and returned then with Nancy. Fanny liked Carl also very much. Most enjoyable were the parties in Pleasantville, with singing and piano-playing, mostly songs by Schubert, Schumann, Loewe, and others.
There came the sad day of Carl’s departure at the end of November from La Guardia airport on a terribly rainy evening.
Soon afterwards, on December 5th, Hedy had to leave for Tacoma, Washington, as Marvin and Johanna went on a trip to Japan, which was relatively inexpensive for them, since Marvin was in the army and had not to pay anything. Hedy had to take care of Nancy and Lauren. I followed her on December 21st, and when Marvin and Johanna returned, we left for home on January 3rd, 1970.
We went again to Tacoma for a short vacation on March 13th,
We often went to Seattle, which was close by, and once also from there by boat to Victoria in Canada on the island Vancouver, a beautiful city, which has to our amazement a very pleasant climate.
